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Forty-eight Iran pilgrims abducted in Damascus

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

IRAN: Forty-eight Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped from a bus
in the Syrian capital on Saturday, their embassy’s consular chief in Damascus
told Iran’s state television. “Armed terrorist groups kidnapped 48 Iranian
pilgrims on their way to the airport,” Majid Kamjou told the IRIB network,
which gave the report on its website.

“There are no reports about the fate of the pilgrims. The
embassy and Syrian officials are trying to trace the kidnappers,” he said.

Syria’s state news agency SANA later gave the same account,
without giving a number for those kidnapped, and added that “authorities are
working to resolve the situation.” Hundreds of thousands of Iranians travel
each year to Syria to visit a Shiite pilgrimage site, the Shrine of Zaynab, in
Damascus.

Tehran is the staunchest ally of Syrian President Bashar
al-Assad, whose forces are locked in a bloody conflict in Damascus and other
cities against rebels his regime describes as “terrorists”.

Several dozen Iranian pilgrims and engineers were abducted
in December and January, with most being released months later.

Many of the rebels come from Syria’s Sunni majority, which
is hostile to the support Shiite Iran has shown to the regime of Assad, whose
family is Alawite, a Shiite offshoot.